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name: "Ryan Potter"
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born: "12 September 1995"
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# Ryan Potter

Actor. Born 12 September 1995 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 September 1995, Portland, Oregon, USA
- **Also known as:** Ράιαν Πότερ, 라이언 포터, رایان پاتر
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1258756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3994407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/515510

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Big Hero 6*](https://film.one/film/big-hero-6.md) (72)

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## Fi1m on Ryan Potter

> Ryan Potter is a persuasive voice for adolescent hurt, particularly when he lets the volume drop. We rate the restraint he brings to *Big Hero 6*, though his career has often asked him to supply youthful energy.

In *Big Hero 6* (2014), Hiro Hamada sits in his room with the door shut, and Ryan Potter lets his voice grow small. The slight crack in his delivery matters: this is a boy who cannot make himself feel better just because help has arrived. Potter gives the sadness its proper weight without sounding as though he is waiting for us to be impressed. We rate that restraint, especially in a film with so much else to keep an audience occupied. It gives us a reason to care before the action takes over.

Maya Rudolph’s Aunt Cass bakes too much and talks too fast, while Baymax scans Hiro and suggests contact with friends. The people around the boy are busy trying to help; Potter does not have to compete with them. We were moved by these scenes because his subdued voice and the robot’s practical care let Hiro remain unhappy without treating him as a problem to hurry past. He is allowed to withdraw, and the film stays with him. That patience is where the performance does its most useful work.

His earlier lead as Mike Fukanaga in *Supah Ninjas* (2011–2013) established the martial-arts side of his screen work. He returned to Hiro for *Big Hero 6: The Series* (2017), while *Titans* (2018–2023) gave him the live-action role of Garfield Logan, or Beast Boy. There, humour and pop-culture references help the character connect with other people, and Potter brings welcome levity to a darker ensemble. The limitation is how often Beast Boy is sidelined, leaving that energy underused. These are different jobs, but youthful eagerness is a recurring demand.

*Big Hero 6* also supplies the caveat: once everyone is put in armour, the film becomes a superhero story we have seen before. Potter’s contribution is worth an evening, but it cannot make those familiar developments more interesting. We would like to see more work that gives his quieter delivery as much room as his physical energy. Start with Hiro, and allow for a film that gets less distinctive as its characters become better equipped.

## Biography

Ryan Potter is an American actor and voice actor. Born on 12 September 1995 in Portland, Oregon, he spent much of his early childhood in Tokyo before returning to the United States at the age of seven.

He made his acting debut in 2011 as Mike Fukanaga in the Nickelodeon series *Supah Ninjas*, which ran until 2013. In 2014, Potter voiced Hiro Hamada in the Disney animated film *Big Hero 6*. He has since reprised the role in *Big Hero 6: The Series* (2017–2021) and *Baymax!* (2022). Potter portrayed Garfield Logan / Beast Boy in the series *Titans* (2018–2023) and appeared in films including *Running for Grace* (2018).

In 2011, he founded the charity Toy Box of Hope.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Big Hero 6* (2014), Fi1m 72, as Hiro Hamada (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/big-hero-6.md)

## Also known for

- *Titans* (2018), Garfield 'Gar' Logan / Beast Boy
- *Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous* (2020), Kenji Kon (voice)
- *Baymax!* (2022), Hiro (voice)
- *Big Hero 6 The Series* (2017), Hiro (voice)
- *Lab Rats: Elite Force* (2016), Riker
- *Supah Ninjas* (2011), Mike Fukanaga
- *Running for Grace* (2018), Jo
- *Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure* (2022), Kenji Kon (voice)

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